Myanmar Leader Says No Ethnic Cleansing Of Rohingya Muslims -BBC

LONDON, April 5 (Reuters) - Myanmar Adventure Tours leader Aung San Suu Kyi said ethnic cleansing was too strong a term to myanmar adventure tours describe what was happening in the Muslim-majority Rakhine region, the BBC reported on Wednesday.

"I don't think there is ethnic cleaning going on," Suu Kyi told the BBC. "I think ethnic cleansing is too strong an expression to use for what is happening."

Nobel Peace Prize winner Suu Kyi is facing international criticism for her government's handling of a crisis in the Muslim-majority Rakhine Myanmar Adventure Tours region, where soldiers have blocked access for aid workers and are accused of raping and killing civilians. (Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Richard Chang)